Show Business: A Novel
Author: Tharoor Shashi
ISBN: 978-0143424321
Price: Rs. 360.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Critically ill, Bollywood superstar Ashok Banjara lies suspended between life and death in a Bombay hospital, a prisoner of the technicolour film that plays inside his head. As if for the first time, he watches himself rise to the heights of the film world and encounters again all the people he met and used along the way. Show Business is many books rolled into one a wonderfully funny tale about the romance and folly of cinema, a novel on an epic scale of ambition, greed, love, deception and death. It is a fable for our time, which teaches us that we live in a world where illusion is the only reality and nothing is what it seems.
Browse this title within our Summer Read collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 320 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-0143424321.
About the Author
An elected member of Parliament, former minister of state for external affairs and human resource development and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor is the prize winning author of fourteen books, both fiction and non fiction. A widely published critic, commentator and columnist, he served the United Nations during a twenty nine year career in refugee work and peacekeeping, at the Secretary General's office and heading communications and public information. In 2006 he was India's candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General and emerged a strong second out of seven contenders. He has won India's highest honour for overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman and numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. For more on Shashi Tharoor
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0143424321
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Pan-India Delivery
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What is this book about?
Critically ill, Bollywood superstar Ashok Banjara lies suspended between life and death in a Bombay hospital, a prisoner of the technicolour film that plays inside his head. As if for the first time, he watches himself rise to the heights of the film world and encounters again all the people he met...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Summer Read and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Tharoor Shashi.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this novel for its sharp, funny and deeply human take on fame and failure. As you slip inside the mind of a dying Bollywood superstar, you’re taken on a dazzling journey through ambition, love, greed and self-deception. The storytelling is rich, cinematic and satirical, making you laugh even as it asks uncomfortable questions about success and illusion. It’s a gripping, thoughtful read that stays with you long after the last page.
- Published by Penguin.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 320.
Catalog Description
Critically ill, Bollywood superstar Ashok Banjara lies suspended between life and death in a Bombay hospital, a prisoner of the technicolour film that plays inside his head. As if for the first time, he watches himself rise to the heights of the film world and encounters again all the people he met and used along the way. Show Business is many books rolled into one a wonderfully funny tale about the romance and folly of cinema, a novel on an epic scale of ambition, greed, love, deception and death. It is a fable for our time, which teaches us that we live in a world where illusion is the only reality and nothing is what it seems.
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